The third and final "tapeworm" book by Mira Grant, it sits somewhere between the first and second book in quality, more of a "3.5 star", but lets round up as I believe it deserves that.

The decisions in this book feel more organic and less stupid, and the flawed antagonist keeps it interesting. The story flows much better then the 2nd book, as clearly someone informed the author a certain plot device was only muddying the waters (*cough*dogs*cough).

Ultimately the book is predictable. Despite the narrator/protagonist insisting "things could go either way" the logic of events indicates that only 1 ending was ever possible. Perhaps that is the authors intent, to allow her creation to be constantly wrong because that's who she is, but it does come off as a bit annoying after a while.

The conclusion is unfortunately a bit anti-climatic and reads like an editor flashing their "wrap it up" sign. There are a couple hanging plot threads. Specifically her "night terror" of waking up, looking at her hands, and screaming were almost certainly her "old self", combined with a minor plot point that the tape worms appear to be fixing their victims brains indicates that the author may have been intending a more morally ambiguous ending, but either liked the character too much to put her through that ordeal or simply didn't want to write a 4th book.

All-in-all a flawed but enjoyable trilogy.